Microsoft announces newest OS: Windows XP

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Charles256
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Post by Charles256 »

I recently upgraded to XP myself. Windows Vista was just fine, very pretty and I enjoyed it. But I got mad when I couldn't play Everquest 2 at 1280 x 1024 on max settings in windowed mode. Upgraded to XP and now I can. I know it shouldn't be that big of a deal but I like to multi task and for things to look good. I spent a good chunk of change on hardware so I expect maximum performance.
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I considered mentioning XULRunner in that post actually but I really don't know enough about it.
I think the bigger reason that Microsoft is so abundant still is their license agreements with manufacturers and retailers to carry only their OS
They do that? They are allowed to do that?
What about KDE4 in general, Oxygen and Plasma? It's heading the direction of supporting Mac OS Dashboard widgets for example. Widgets written in Ruby, Javascript, Python or (if crazy and insane) C++. It's coming in January... The RC I tried was looking pretty spiffy.

Also Adobe AIR. I don't know how familiar it is to anyone (if you have a Mac or Windows download Ed Finkler's Spaz Twitter client) but it's quite fun to play with - if you're not into Flash or Flex, you can run primarily with HTML and Javascript.
OK there's one hell of a lot of googling right there. I've never heard of Oxygen, Plasma or AIR. Certainly sounds inspiring that Linux is leading the way for bundling high level language platforms, although I understand Ruby comes with OSX leopard as well.
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